> On Apr 7, 2016, at 2:34 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > on Mon Apr 04 2016, Xiaodi Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My read on the API guidelines is that the mutating/non-mutating distinction >> is >> made by verbs vs. nouns. The verb itself doesn't have to "suggest" or "feel" >> mutating, it just has to be clearly a verb. Thus, IMO, `form` is as good a >> verb >> as any, although if we're going to return to bikeshedding I would suggest >> that >> `do` is even shorter. > > It is, but x.doUnion(y) doesn't make any plausible sense, at least not > to me.
It's worth mentioning that there's still a fanbase for `union` and `unionInPlace`. -- E _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
